Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life

Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust''s contemporaries, Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu). Challenging traditional interpretations, she argues that Proust''s magnum opus is not a melancholic text, but one that records the dynamic time of change and the complex...